One of the hallmarks of maturity as a coach is awareness of how your values, beliefs, and other factors affect your coaching interventions. It takes skill to notice these influences which can manifest both physically and mentally during coaching, while simultaneously ensuring a client focused approach. Coaching Presence examines how self-awareness can be built across key aspects of coaching practice, introducing a model that will help you make a conscious and deliberate choice for every approach or intervention that you use with your client. It explores how, by paying close attention to the motivations behind every coaching choice, you can minimize the unconscious negative influences and bias to produce the best outcome for the client and their wider system. It will also help you recognize when conscious visibility expressed explicitly to the client may actually be the best coaching solution. An online supporting resource includes a 'Leader as Mediator' white paper.

Consciousness and awareness is of fundamental importance for coaches, especially those developing their skills. Introduces Four Modes of Coaching Presence framework that offers you a structure to reflect on your coaching practice while you are coaching and includes a toolkit of techniques that can be applied directly to coaching practice. Uses increased awareness to take a stronger client-centred approach, and demonstrates this with examples of real life coaching situations.

About the Author
Maria Iliffe-Wood is an executive coach and coach supervisor with over 25 years of coaching experience. She is a director of Meridian Iliffe Ltd and works with business leaders across a broad range of organizations and sectors. Maria is passionate about enhancing the skills of the coaching profession as a way of helping greater numbers of people lead more rewarding and fulfilling lives. She is a Co Coaching UK Lead for the Association for Coaching and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Derby on the Masters in Leadership Coaching programme.

Reviews
"Maria's coaching style and interventions have had very positive, tangible effects for employees within Paul Smith Ltd. Maria has both proven previous business experience and very credible success as a powerful business coach. I cannot recommend Maria highly enough to any organization." * Margaret Mitchell, HR Manager, Paul Smith Ltd. *
"Maria Iliffe-Wood's contribution to the coaching world is a must-read." * Anita Mountain, Principal Consultant/Coach of Mountain Associates *
"This is more than a book; it's an invitation on a journey to coaching maturity. Maria guides us through her process with precision and purpose, sharing her own inner wisdom to allow us, and our clients to find and know theirs." * Susanna Way, Head of Professional Forums, Association for Coaching *



Book Information
ISBN 9780749470579
Author Maria Iliffe-Wood
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Kogan Page Ltd
Publisher Kogan Page Ltd
Weight(grams) 325g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 12mm